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Noah Howard
by Andrey Henkin
A move to Europe can often take a successful musician out of the tight focus of American listeners. Though the cross-pollination of Europe and America is now well established, ex-pat Americans often give up their native renown for the increased work and appreciation to be found across the pond. Though Noah Howard, once ...
The Bob Parent Archive Project: A Photographer's Legacy Quietly Grows
by AAJ Staff
How is it possible for half a dozen of a photographer's images to be instantly recognizable around the world, and yet for the photographer himself to be almost unknown?Bob Parent was a New York-based photographer whose lucid, defining images appeared regularly in Life, Downbeat magazine (the “jazz bible"), in books and on album covers. ...
Miles Davis
by Tim Kirker
1926 - 1991The musical legacy of Miles Davis seems too huge for one man. Especially since he was a vital part of nearly every important development of innovation and style in jazz after the Second World War. His protean approach put him at the forefront of bebop, cool, modal, hard bop, and fusion. From ...
Duke Ellington
by Tim Kirker
1899 - 1974Composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington rates as one of the most original and important figures in 20th century American music. He came of age at the dawning of jazz in the 1920s and along with Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, and Bessie Smith, propelled the genre into its rightful place as a ...
Louis Armstrong
by Tim Kirker
1901 - 1971When speaking of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby once commented that he was “the beginning and the end of music in America. Though Armstrong didn't single handedly create jazz, he did steer it through five decades of development, breathing structure and imagination into its fiber. In the process he helped change the American ...
Ray Charles
by Tim Kirker
1930 - 2004Often cited as “the genius of soul music, Ray Charles used his prodigious talents as singer, pianist, and bandleader to marry elements of blues and gospel into an exciting new genre. Initially ruling the R&B charts, Charles' gritty, passionate croon became the essence of soul and with his unique genre-crossing sensibility hit ...
Charlie Parker
by Tim Kirker
1920 - 1955Charlie “Bird Parker was one of the founders of post-war jazz and one of its pre-eminent innovators. What Parker did for alto saxophone improvisation not only influenced countless sax players, but other instrumentalists as a whole. The leader of the bebop revolution played with pure velocity - focused, forceful, and cutting, exemplifying ...
Django Reinhardt
by Tim Kirker
1910-1953In the sphere of improvisational guitarists one name always warrants mention: Django Reinhardt. He was in a class by himself and has been referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of jazz guitar. To this day no guitarist has come close to his style of playing. His tonal clarity, strength of melody, fullness of expression, ...
Billie Holiday
by Tim Kirker
1915 - 1959Billie Holiday will always be admired for her ability to communicate the underlying tragedy of life in a song. Her gift for getting to the heart of a lyric and making it her own put her at the forefront of jazz singers. What she lacked in virtuosity she more than made up ...
Paul Motian: Sound in Motian
by Russ Musto
"Everything comes from the sound. It's in the sound. It's in the sound of my drums. It's in the sound of whatever I'm hearing, Paul Motian says describing his unique musical style. “I don't have any idea what I'm doing, what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I'm playing off of the other people I'm ...
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